Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Either an executive can do his job or he can't.
If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.
The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.